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pink lotus


pink lotus
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Copyright: Adrian Jacob Lok (adrik) Silver Note Writer [C: 0 W: 0 N: 25] (180)
Genre: Plants
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-03-24
Categories: Flowers
Camera: Nikon D80 with MB_D80, AF Nikkor 80-200mm / f2.8 ED
Exposure: f/8, 1/1000 seconds
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Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2009-02-10 6:45
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Points: 6
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Nelumbo is a genus of aquatic plants with large, showy, water lily-like flowers commonly known as lotus or sacred lotus. The generic name is derived from the Sinhalese word Nelum. There are two species in the genus, the better known of which, N. nucifera, or "Sacred Lotus," is the well-known national flower of India and Vietnam.

There is residual disagreement over which family the genus should be placed in. Traditional classification systems recognized Nelumbo as part of the Nymphaeaceae (water lily) family, but traditional taxonomists were likely misled by evolutionary convergences associated with an evolutionary shift from a terrestrial to an aquatic life style. In the older classification systems it was recognized under the biological order Nymphaeales or Nelumbonales. Nelumbo is currently recognized as its own family, Nelumbonaceae, as one of several distinctive families in the eudicot order Proteales. Its closest living relatives are shrubs or trees (Proteaceae and Platanaceae).

These plants are unrelated to the bird's-foot trefoils and deer-vetches of the genus Lotus.
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Kulîlka xweşik rind û çê hatiye kişandin.
TFS.
Dûrzan

Adrian çok ilginç bir çiçek.detayları çok güzel,rengi çok güzel.Oratası özellikle bir süs kondurulmuş gibi,ellerine sağlık :)

Bonjour Adrian,
Cette publication est beaucoup plus intéressante que ta précédente du white lotus car la finesse des détails y est beaucoup plus perceptible, de même que la délicatesse des couelurs, sous une bonne profondeur de champ et une belle lumière.
A bientôt sur TN pour de nouvelles aventures.
Gérard

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